Fiction - Noir

Ira Wakely has not been heard from by anyone in Oak Valley since the previous fall. Without any clue as to where he went, his new friends begin to think they'll never see him again. All that changes when Susan Jushaway finds herself pursued...

Oak Valley U.S.A is a quiet town until the day when a series of murders start happening. All of them appear unrelated and even coincidental. However, the one thing they all have in common is a reporter for the local newspaper, Ira Wakely. He...

Morrissey Jarrett is fresh out of prison and back on the streets of his hometown Cardiff.During his enforced absence the city has been re-developed to within an inch of its life and a disoriented Morrissey falls back into old habits as he scams, schemes,...

The New York seventies murder that gave birth to a song ... She was a beautiful young singer-songwriter with a dream, but she ended up dead on a Madison Avenue sidewalk, a gun in her hand. Just another New York mugging - except she...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Near-future San Francisco is a dark world where reality is changeable and different dimensions overlap.Teen Malibu Makimura discovers she can feel people's emotions, and senses an ominous voice growing inside her. She lands a job at a women's nightclub drawing surrealist caricatures. One night...

Don't get me wrong, but work is a four letter word.No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it is unavoidable."Joey Truman manifests a bizarro literary sitcom as sexy romp as meditation on being trapped in the working class with no way out."...

She barely survived the last round. As the Red Dog Gang closes in on her Family, can she survive the next?After the devastating events of our last chapter, all private eye and mafia wife Jacqueline Spadros wants is to get her life back.Then a...

The unofficial book of 2020. James Calemine's The Road to Hell is a collection of fictional short stories illustrated with Calemine's haunting photographs. These gritty stories deal with mass shootings, hurricanes, social media addiction, power grids, corruption, gambling, a criminal liar, toxic water, graveyard...

WHERE DOES A HIT MAN DRAW THE LINE? With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But...

After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre's conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself. When...

The Korean War rages on in this thrilling alternate history sequel to Beat the Devils: Morris Baker, now a private investigator, must solve a missing persons case in the midst of an endless battle. December, 1959: The Korean War rages on. Protesting the bloody...

"Blending hard-boiled noir and romance into a compelling historical tale, Looking for Garbo is filled with heart and action." --Foreword Reviews James Main has a film to make. Seth Moseley has a story to tell. Neither have any idea how looking for Garbo would...

If you're going to be murdered in San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.San Francisco. August 1966. The Beatles haven't arrived yet to play their show at Candlestick Park, but Inspectors Henry Nash and Ross Belcher of the San Francisco...

August 1966: The puzzling murder of a local musician with connections to the Beatles leads SFPD inspectors Henry Nash and Ross Belcher to investigate bike gang members, rock musicians, proto-hippies, beatniks, and maybe the Beatles themselves.Author: Roy ChaneyISBN-10: 1737540606ISBN-13: 9781737540601Publisher: Roy ChaneyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2022Pages:...

A cop at the tail end of his career goes on the hunt when an unplanned kidnapping hits close to home...Officer Sean Coyle's making one last run working the streets at a time when his friends are trading in their badges for fishing poles....

Last Chance/First Chance. Lucky Lantz may be at the end of his rope, but he's swinging that rope as hard as he can. Returning to his hometown after a long recovery in a sanitarium for TB, he has one last chance to step away...

Jesse James Kennedy's second novel, Tijuana Mean, continues the saga of the ruthless drug-dealing McCray clan. The American Library Association's Booklist has delivered a glowing preview: "Mean as ever . . . stepping over the bodies-a lot of them. . . . Kennedy's involvement...

This is the 2nd book in a series of PULP NOIR.Mystery, Thrillers, And Pulp-Noir Fantasy. The rich history of Pulp stories are pure Americana. Written like a script from Film Noir movie, you are to be transported to a time in the 30's, 40's...

Lambda Literary Award-winning author returns with a stunning mystery proving that Noir is the new black. A golden city of prosperity, energy, the exciting engine of the American Dream. Just underneath, though, is a dark city, with darker ambitions. This is the world of...

A compelling and compulsively readable riff on the classic noir detective novel that follows a hard-drinking PI accused of a murder he didn't commit--or did he? Eddie King wakes up one morning with a splitting headache to find two cops in his room, who...

Veteran LAPD detective and bestselling author Paul Bishop puts up his dukes to deliver a trio of knockout stories in Three Punch Combo. Intimately familiar with the mean streets of Los Angeles and the unforgiving brutality of the boxing ring, Bishop's insider knowledge drags...

"If you're of a certain age, your perception of South Los Angeles might have been formed by riots and rappers. Or maybe you know it through television . . . But Gary Phillips, who grew up there, has a more historically complex point of...

A rattling good yarn and a suspenseful whodunit, against the backdrop of real historical events, that brings sixteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes together with Karl Marx and his brilliant daughter Eleanor to solve a cascading series of murders at a Bohemian spa. Karl Marx Private Eye...

A disquieting, haunting work, The Endless Rose begins when a one-legged woman's manuscript is accepted by a small publishing house consisting of two friends. Stunned and excited by her writing, they invite her to visit them in the south of Spain.The hypnotic, gut-wrenching events...

A darkly comic noir about a chicken living in a world of anthropomorphic eggs who's wanted for a murder he didn't commit. Life's tough for an "embry." Considered a vestigial organ at best and a parasite at worst, chicken embryos are usually aborted by...

A collection of strange tales for those who like horror, the supernatural, and science fiction. These six short stories explore some classic themes in contemporary settings. All have a dark vibe which creates the overall tone of the collection.The book opens with 'The Sable...

PI Steve Rockfish's father loses part of his retirement savings in an online romance scam while partner Jawnie McGee handles the firm's newest client who spins a tale of alleged spousal infidelity. Rockfish ignores his current case load and becomes fixated on tracking down...

"... a well-crafted, enjoyable and intriguing mystery that, for better or worse, is a little heavy on the protagonist's breast-level view of the world." -IndieReaderIt's easy to be a nobody when you've got nothing to lose, but with his life and potential redemption on...

Foreword INDIES FinalistLibrary Journal Pick of the Month. This crime thriller set against the backdrop of a gritty Philadelphia is a rare achievement of noir fiction.Author: Jeff JohnsonISBN-10: 1683367251ISBN-13: 9781683367253Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2017Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81dReview Citation(s): Library Journal...

What is "normal" in San Francisco? In 1982, sexual experimentation was common. But naked corpses wearing flea collars? Riley the exterminator is thrust into the kinky corners of a city where the boundary between normalcy and deviancy is blurred-where sex is handcuffed to violence....

Enigmatic, charming, and brutally resourceful, Knottspeed is a man on a mission. He also happens to be dead, but the rumors of his demise have been slightly exaggerated--by the man himself as the key to his plan.A problem-solver, a finder of lost people and...

Joe Maynard runs a legit place, good food, excellent service, and at night, good music. It's true if you want to place a friendly side wager, Joe will take your bet. He's a community leader, a player in the local politics of Capital City...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB) A "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he...

WINNER OF THE NAGUIB MAHFOUZ MEDAL FOR LITERATUREA BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB) A "spare, well-crafted and compelling" (Samah Selim) novel in which a man in Algiers disappears without trace and the detective in search of him finds more than he...

When Nick's secretary is found brutally murdered in his office, he quickly becomes the authority's number one suspect. He sets out to clear himself and find her killer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. Nothing is what it seems to be in...

Adam Darnow, creation of the highly-rated Scottish author David Keachie, enters the fray again and this time, he has to get out or die. Retired gangster Sir Mathieson Allanton is in trouble and for once, out of his depth. Someone with unlimited resources wants...

Life's never simple for private inspector, Cybil Lewis. Her investigation for her latest client runs into a snag: dead bodies all over The District with his DNA. Is it a malfunction in the system or something far more sinister?Author: Nicole Givens KurtzISBN-10: 0999852213ISBN-13: 9780999852217Publisher:...

Book One in the Denver Moon SeriesEarth is dying. Luna is uninhabitable. Mars is our last chance.Once considered humanity's future home, Mars hasn't worked out like anybody hoped. Plagued by crime and a terraforming project that's centuries from completion, Mars is a red hell.Denver...

The novella is centered on Charlie Rant, a law student who's forced into being a rum runner to save his brother's life.When Charlie visits his brother in the hospital, he's confronted with an ugly truth: his brother has been rum running for the Caprice...

It's a race against time to find a teenager missing on the mean streets of Boston, in this hardboiled mystery featuring Andy Roark, Vietnam veteran turned Private Investigator. Boston, 1985. Private Investigator Andy Roark left the military behind years ago, but his past comes...

John Manis, aka Johnny Manic, isn't who he says he is. His money can't ease the burden of his dark secret. The high life, he finds, is a lonely life when you have to live it as someone else. If only someone could see...

New Mystery by Edgar-Nominated Author In 1921, young jazz pianist Eve Riser witnesses the accidental killing of a bootlegger. To cover up the crime, she agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Rudy Hardy in Chicago. But when Eve gets to Chicago...

Belgium, 1944. A young German soldier is gunned down in a mass execution by American riflemen. Left for dead among the frozen corpses of his comrades, Matthias Bartsch is attacked by a pair of sinister creatures and undergoes a horrid transformation. As a fledgling...

Alex Bledsoe's novels featuring detective Eddie LaCrosse have drawn rave reviews for their ingenious blend of classic fantasy and hard-boiled detective fiction. Now with Dark Jenny, Bledsoe returns with an all-new standalone tale of intrigue and murder. . . . For twenty-five gold pieces...

Helter Skelter. 1969's Summer of Love came to an abrupt end when a group of hippies killed seven people -- actress Sharon Tate and four others at Tate's home, plus a married couple. Here we meet Jack Middleton, an aging LAPD Detective who is...

Things Could Get Ugly is historical fiction, set in late summer, 1939. It was a time when the Great Depression lingered on, Jim Crow divided the South along racial lines, the Syndicate was extending its influence. Hitler threatened war in Europe, and there was...